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... round, cutting wood for heat, and building storage barns and such. The youthful crowd and energetic activities give it a “Dude Ranch” or farm hand sort of feel with a strong dose of hard-core Zen. I do mean hard core....the web page warns to know why you are coming here because “Nobody will wipe your ass for you”. The setting is just awesome, the practice quite demanding, and again I've had the fortune to meet some exceptional human beings.

Rich green rice paddies, a rich variety of mountain panoramas, tiny towns with crystal clear mountain brooks, traditional tiled roof/ bamboo slat houses, river-bridge views of modern, organized and clean cities – traveling by rail in Japan gives a sampling-platter of Japanese life. The cutting-edge bullet train feels like a rocket ship, but the local trains that slice through the ...

... vending machine. I've never seen milk in a vending machine and I A) wanted to know how the vending machine would dispense the milk, and B) wanted to know how it tasted. I love milk. I can drink it at any time, with or without food. After working out I want milk. After mowing the yard - milk. It's a natural energy drink. So I bought milk. Here's what I learned. A) the vending machine is essentially a refrigerator, and the front door opens and you take out a milk (which has a ...

... like walking in the snow pile. On the other hand, other tourists didn't care about the piled snow and they were heading for the peak of the highest dune called "Horseback". Thanks to them, there was a beaten path up to there. The view from the top was great in all directions. One guy was so carried away, walking down to the foot of the 90 meter high dune. There was a pond called "the oasis" at the foot, ...

... an English menu, and ate there. It was a nice dinner, a few bits of sashimi, some edamame beans, some yakitori etc. We headed back to our hotel through the constant rain to our hotel. Tottori is a fairly nondescript town and we were there on Sunday which meant that many shops were closed, which made it even more boring and provincial. It kind of reminded me of Slough in its pure ...